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Winners at the 2025 The Fact Music Awards

Published Sep 21, 2025 09:43 am
The winners at the 2025 The Fact Music Awards (Photos: TMA, X)
The winners at the 2025 The Fact Music Awards (Photos: TMA, X)

The 2025 The Fact Music Awards ceremony was held on Sept. 20 in Macau, honoring K-pop artists. 

The awards ceremony, hosted by Korean media outlet The Fact, was attended by many artists from Stray Kids to AHOF. 

Stray Kids won four awards: Honor of the Year, Record of the Year, Artist of the Year and TMA Popularity Award. 

"We recently finished promoting our album, and we will prepare well for our next promotions as well. We would like to thank Stay (fans) for their continued love,” said Stray Kids member Seungmin. 

Girl group Aespa won Muse of the Year, Artist of the Year and Special Jury Award while IVE took home Sound of the Year and Artist of the Year. 

“We are so grateful that MY (fandom name), who is our number one priority, has become our muses. We will work hard to become even cooler artists for our muses," said Aespa. 

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The 2025 The Fact Music Awards ceremony was held on Sept. 20 (TMA)
The 2025 The Fact Music Awards ceremony was held on Sept. 20 (TMA)

IVE said, "First of all, we would like to thank 'The Fact Music Awards' for making us who we are. IVE will continue to be an IVE who can bring you good music in the future.” 

Boy band ENHYPEN won Icon of the Year, Artist of the Year and Today’s Choice, which was chosen by the audience. 

"Thank you for giving us this meaningful award, following two truly honorable awards. I also want to say a sincere word to our Engene (fandom name). We love you," said ENHYPEN. 

Here are the winners at the 2025 The Fact Music Awards: 

Honor of the Year - Stray Kids

Muse of the Year - Aespa

Sound of the Year - IVE

Icon of the Year - ENHYPEN

Record of the Year - Stray Kids

World’s Best Performer - Zerobaseone 

World’s Best Wave - Boynextdoor 

Artist of the Year - Stray Kids, TWS, ENHYPEN, Aespa, IVE, NMIXX, Boynextdoor, Zerobaseone, NCT WISH

Global Hot Trend - NEXZ, MEOVV

Next Leader - Hearts2Hearts, KiiiKiii, Allday Project 

Hottest - Close Your Eyes, AHOF

TMA Popularity Award - Stray Kids

Today’s Choice - ENHYPEN

Global Hot Star - Plave

Special Jury Award - Aespa

Best Music (Winter) - BTS’ V

Best Music (Spring) - BTS’ J-Hope 

Best Music (Summer) - BTS’ Jin

Angel N Star - Lim Young-woong

FAN N STAR Choice (Group) - Plave

FAN N STAR Choice (Solo) - BTS’ Jin

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